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estimable worth, interests infinitely precious, committed to every
mother. The humble round of duties which women have come to
regard as a wearisome task, should be looked upon as a grand and
noble work. It is the mother's privilege to bless the world by her
influence,. and in doing this she will bring joy to her own heart.
She may make straight paths for the feet of her children, through
sunshine and shadow, to the glorious heights above. But it is only
when she seeks, in her own life, to follow the teachings of Chria,
that the mother can hope to orm the character of her children
after the divine pattern."—"Patriarchs
and Prophets," page 57.'2.)
3. "Parents are entitled to a degree of love and respect which
is due to no other person. God Himself, who has placed upon
them a responsibility for the souls committed to their charge, has
ordained that during the earlier years of life parents shall stand
in the place of God to their children. And he who rejects the
rightful authority of his• parents, is rejecting the authority of
God. The fifth commandment requires children not only to yield
respect, submission, and obedience to their parents, but also to
give them love and tenderness, to lighten their cares, to guard
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their reputation, and to succor and comfort them in old age. It
also enjoins respect for ministers and rulers, and for all others
to whom God has delegated authority."—
Id., page 308.
4.
"Dear young friends, that which you sow, you will also
reap. Now is the sowing time for you. What will the harvest bet
What are you sowing'? Every word you utter, every act you per-
form, is a seed which will bear good or evil fruit, and will result
in joy' or sorrow. to the sower. As is the seed sown, so will be the
crop._ God has given you great light and many privileges. After
this light has been given, after your dangers have been plainly
presented before you, the responsibility becomes yours: The man-
ner in which you treat the light that God gives you, will turn the
scale for happiness or wo. You are shaping your destinies for
yourselves. "—"
Testimonies for the Church,' volume 3, page'36.I.
"A little time spent in sowing your wild oats, dear young
friends, will produce a crop that will embitter your whole lif e;
an hour of thoughtlessness — once yielding to temptation — may
turn the whole current of your life in the wrong direction. You
can have but one youth; make that useful. When once you have
passed over the ground, you can never return to rectify your
mistakes. He who refuses to connect with God, and puts himself
in the way of temptation, will surely fall. God is testing every
youth."—
Id., volume 4, pages 622, 623.
5.
" Timothy's father was a Greek and his mother a Jewess.
From a child he had known the
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Scriptures. The piety that he saw
in his home life was sound and sensible. The faith of his mother
and his grandmother in the sacred oracles was to him a constant